Help stop maleficence within the Family Courts!!

I am seeking to change a family law ordinance for the safety of your child, grandchild, nieces and nephews. By changing the law as it is now for children that are not in the system but have been overlooked or set aside. We need to come together as a society to change the governed laws in Family Court that protects a custodial parent that evades the law, by hiding from the courts, runs and evades the subpoena process that is utilized, by not accepting the process as it is written out as it is in the court system as we know it today.

I personally have been in a custody battle for my grandson whom is under 2 yrs. old. His mother has never been cited of abuse or neglect, but she avoids the court orders. She has on the other hand, been spoken to by agencies within the Family and Children's Protection Services in 4 separate counties in our state. She has learned that as long as she refuses to go to the hearings held, she still has the custodial power.

She has been involved with 4 state agencies regarding my grandson's care since he was a month old and has been cited on paper as a neglectful parent but not to point that any county, she has resided within has been able to protect my grandson enough. She will get wind that the system is going to step in and according my research and talks with the courts and attorneys. She can move around and endanger my grandson by living in several different houses with drugs and people that are affiliated with drug usage.

It came down to the fact that she has eluded the authorities with lies for where she resides on police incident reports and she used the judge's ruling to endanger my grandson once again but allowing him to be neglected and abused by others as well as by herself. There must be a law put into place that covers the welfare of the child when a parent purposely uses the system to continuously endanger a child's well-being. Because of the lack of care my daughter has given my grandson in the first 18 months of life even under the watchful eye of the state workers; she endangered him by neglecting to watch him and because of this behavior, my grandson fell down a flight of steps, not just a few steps, no, we are talking about 20 steps that landed him on a concrete pad in front of a metal door that no one could see where he landed without hitting him with said door when opening it.

My daughter has also been abusive verbally to him and again no one thinks it should be a concern. My grandson came to me one day this past Spring with a busted lip from her popping him in the mouth for biting her. She has a diagnosis for a personality disorder and other issues that causes her to detach herself from him and others. She has also caused issues because she manipulates and lies to authorities in order to gain the upper hand. People like this should not be allowed to be granted the right after numerous incidents being cited against them with the systems Children's Protection Service Workers in our states.

What are they waiting for a broken bone, or even death of the child(ren) before someone decides enough is enough? We all must come together to find a way to save the child of today from those parents that are abusive both mentally, emotionally, verbally as well as physically. Our grandchildren, children, nieces and nephews of tomorrow deserve to be treated humanely not like just an object to be used and manipulated. Parents that are in the same boat with such as my grandson is with his own mother, need to have these laws amended to state that we as a society believe that our court system needs to do more than drop the ball until the system can subpoena the person that is creating the problems that lead the children of tomorrow to become the slackers and wasted souls that parents such as she is to be granted custody of a child. We must react to the injustice of the outcome and seek safety and love for these children in this situation.

I can only hope and pray that someone else that reads this petition can understand that I am not in any way trying to hurt my daughter or anyone else. All I am seeking is to do is get a law passed that helps protect the children that are in the same situation as my grandson. By standing up in the court and pleading with a judge to look at the living conditions and the photos of the bruises and the blood coming from a child's mouth because an infant is not self-aware that biting is wrong and smacking or hitting that child in the mouth is wrong, Period. Whether it causes their mouth to bleed or not. It is needs to be seen by a judge as evidence of abuse upon that child. If the parent where to burn or cause a broken bone on that child, they would be arrested. But when the system fails to see that; that leads us to the issues we have been facing with my grandson for the past 3 months with self-abuse, aggressive behaviors and self-harm. There must be something done to save these babies, whether is it your own child, your grandchild, your niece or nephew, we must stop the court system from dropping that child into that situation as was done this week with my own grandson.

We have done all we can do at this point. All we know is that my daughter currently took him from our home with the help of the court system because she refused to appear in court and then used that to her benefit. It is my belief that when a child is left and abandoned by the custodial parent(s) and is left with a family member or other person; and the parent at that time agreed to allow to leave the child with said person, the court system needs to leave that child with said person until the parent(s) are served and comes to court as the subpoena suggests they do. The court system should think more about the welfare of the child not about the parent's custodial rights when evidence before the court suggests that the parent needs to undergo certain requirements to gain the custody of said child(ren). If the parent has a continuous reputation that proves them unfit in the eyes of society since they won't work to support their child(ren) and wants to live off the system through welfare assistance and that includes cash assistance.

In my daughter's case, she worked for 3 weeks at one place and 6 six weeks at another within 1 year. She never again picked up another job, instead she seeks out a man to take care of her or she finds a friend to take her in. She must learn to grow up but not at the expense of her child. He never asked to be born into the situation he has been paced into.

Help me and others like myself seek a better system in which we change the laws to govern better understanding and compassion for our grandchild, children, nieces as well as our nephews and others. If we stand together as a society for better laws governing family law, we all win on a larger scale. Grandparents, parents and families in these situations can govern to raise a healthy well-adjusted capable child to become our next President, a lawyer or someone we can all be proud of. On the other hand, if we should fail to pass laws that govern better protection of the children of this world from abusive parents, we are just as guilty as those that are causing the neglect, abuse and mental anguish that these poor children have to face every day of their lives. We need to stop the abuse, all forms of it that causes children to cause themselves self-harm and harm to others due to the early abuse that they are faced with. For my grandson we had behaviorist involved to help curb his behavior, now he won't be receiving these much needed services that will benefit him in the future, If he continues to be faced with such circumstances as my daughter has placed him into he could become one of those children out there on drugs that are trying to rid themselves of the abuse or a killer because he causes self-harm and his aggression will become uncontrollable.

Everything I have posted within this petition is on record in the Juvenile Court case in the Columbiana County Courthouse records of Ohio State. Please I ask for your compassion and understanding. Put yourself in my shoes as the only living maternal grandparent seeking the best for my grandson. See it from my side of the table. Then see from my daughter's if you like. A young girl that was placed in the system due to lies and fallacious behavior as a 6-yr. old. Lies that led her to being adopted at the age of 14 in Ohio and then by the age of 16 she was released by that adopted family back into state custody. She lived in group homes until she was 18 and then left. She moved from Columbus to Youngstown, there she met a guy, got pregnant and then placed that child into the system because she had done the same things then as she is doing now. Reckless behavior led her to homelessness and she evidentially had no other choice but to give her son up for adoption within the 2 yrs. that child was in a foster home.
She has not changed her behavior and she is continuously seeking out boy after boy. She left my grandson here with us and went out over night with a guy and never told anyone where she was. One day a fear she will meet the wrong guy and he will rape and/or kill her. Then where will my grandson be….

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